Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...

T he political affiliation of elected sheriffs in the United States does not appear to influence the local incidence of extremist violence, according to a new study published in Political Research ...

Journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko discusses the rise of far-right sheriffs in the US and argues that the office of ...

CARTER: Well, sheriffs are unique in that they are, as you noted, elected across most states in the United States, so 46 states elect their sheriffs. They're county-level offices, ...

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Sheriffs in Iowa, New York, North Carolina were among those who said they won't prioritize mass deportations, ... 47% of deportations from within the United States went through jails.

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

The first, "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States," by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman (author interview here), is a rigorously synthetic work of political ...

Sheriffs point out that their power under the program is limited, ... He said he came to the United States from Mexico when he was 13 and has since worked as a dishwasher, ...

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in deciding whether to participate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. But states increasingly are making the choice for them.

Adapted from The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, which will be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.